The Top Albums from 1966



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1 | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds |
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2 | The Beatles | Revolver |
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7 | Bob Dylan | Blonde on Blonde |
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122 | The Rolling Stones | Aftermath |
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223 | The Mothers of Invention | Freak Out!
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302 | John Mayall | Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton |
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532 | The Kinks | Face to Face |
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701 | Simon and Garfunkel | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
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721 | Otis Redding | Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
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724 | The Byrds | Fifth Dimension |
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756 | Ike and Tina Turner | River Deep - Mountain High
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844 | The Mamas and the Papas | If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
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948 | Cream | Fresh Cream |
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963 | Yardbirds | Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down/Roger the Engineer
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984 | 13th Floor Elevators | The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
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1008 | John Coltrane | Ascension |
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1037 | Simon and Garfunkel | Sounds of Silence |
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1088 | Fred Neil | Fred Neil/Everybody's Talkin' |
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1221 | Cecil Taylor | Unit Structures |
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1272 | Monks | Black Monk Time |
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1320 | Buffalo Springfield | Buffalo Springfield
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1408 | Donovan | Sunshine Superman |
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1434 | Larry Young | Unity |
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1552 | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band | East-West
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1567 | Tim Hardin | Tim Hardin 1 |
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1651 | John Coltrane | Meditations |
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1665 | Wayne Shorter | Adam's Apple |
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1756 | James Carr | You Got My Mind Messed Up |
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1829 | Skip James | Today! |
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1881 | Ornette Coleman | At the Golden Circle, Volume One
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1941 | Sun Ra | The Magic City |
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2100 | The Who | A Quick One |
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2145 | Lee Morgan | Cornbread |
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2181 | The Monkees | The Monkees |
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2205 | Sun Ra | Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 2 |
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2230 | Ornette Coleman | At the Golden Circle, Volume Two
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2286 | Love | Love |
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2331 | Roscoe Mitchell Sextet | Sound |
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2341 | Sonny Rollins | East Broadway Run Down |
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2445 | Don Cherry | Complete Communion |
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2615 | Wilson Pickett | The Exciting Wilson Pickett
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2628 | Joe Henderson | Mode for Joe |
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2631 | The Lovin' Spoonful | Daydream |
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2713 | Ennio Morricone | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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2724 | Otis Redding | The Soul Album |
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2753 | The Animals | Animalisms/Animalization |
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2768 | The Animals | Animalism |
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2858 | Phil Ochs | Phil Ochs in Concert |
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| Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: |
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| Sun Ra | Other Planes of There |
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| Nina Simone | Wild Is the Wind |
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| Buck Owens and His Buckaroos | Carnegie Hall Concert
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| Jimmy Smith and Wes Mongomery | Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo
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| John Coltrane | Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
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| The Fugs | The Fugs |
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| Frank Sinatra | Sinatra at the Sands |
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| John Handy | Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival
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Buddy Rich | Swingin' New Big Band |
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| Bert Jansch | Jack Orion |
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| Sam & Dave | Hold On, I'm Comin' |
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| Sun Ra | Visits Planet Earth |
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| Smokey Robinson and The Miracles | Away We A Go-Go
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| Archie Shepp | Mama Too Tight |
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| Jr. Walker & The All Stars | Road Runner
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| The Supremes | The Supremes A' Go-Go |
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| The Lovin' Spoonful | Hums of The Lovin' Spoonful
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The Beatles | "Yesterday" ...and Today |
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| Merle Haggard | Swinging Doors and the Bottle Let Me Down
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| Stevie Wonder | Up-Tight, Everything's Alright
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| Krzysztof Komeda | Astigmatic |
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| The Walker Brothers | Portrait |
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| The Association | And Then…Along Comes The Association
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| Four Tops | On Top |
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